Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-02
DAILY HERALD.
ANECDOTES OF JAY GOULD.
nan Nye Makes Another Friendly
Call ON the Little King.
From the New York World.J

venting him from making as much
money as he would otherwise. With
good health and his present methods
of doing business, Mr.. Gould could in
q few years be beyond the reach OF
want, but he is up SO much nights
with his face that he has to keep one
gas jet burning all the time. Besides
he has cabled once to Brown-Sequard
for neuralgia pill that he thought
would relieve the intense pain, and
found after he had paid for tho tele-
gram that every druggist in New York
kept the Brown-Sequard pill in stock
But when man is i'll he does moi
care for expense, especially when he
controls an Atlantic cable or two.
This neuralgia pill is about the size
of a two-year-old. colt and pure white.
1 have been compelled to take several
of them myself while suffering from
facial neuralgia, for neuralgia does
not spare the good, the true and the
beautiful. She comes along and nips
the poor yeoman as well as the mil
ionaire who sits in the lap of luxury.
Millionaires who hatter themselves
that they can evade neuralgia by going
and sitting in the lap of luxury make
a great mistake.
"And do you find that this large
porcelain pill relieves you at all, Mr..
Gould?" l asked him during one OF
these attacks, as he sat in his studio
with his face tied up in hot bran. .
"No, it does me no good whatever" +"
said the man who likes to take lame
railroad and put it on its feet by issu-
ing more bonds. SIT coctains lite
morphine, which dulls the pain, but
there's nothing in the pill to cure in
digestion. My neuralgia comes from
indigestion. My appetite is four sizes
too large for a man of my height and
every little while l overeat. l then
get dangerously ill and stocks become
greatly depressed in consequence. l
am now in a position where, if | had
constitution that would stand the
strain, could get well off in a few
wears, but 1 am not strong enough.
Every little change in the weather
affects me. I see red-headed girl on
the street and Immediately afterwards
/ see one of these big white pills."
care you sure, Mr.. Gould ?" l asked
him with some solicitude, as l bent
forward and inhaled the rich fragrance
of the carnation in his button-hole,
''that you have not taken cold in some
way~
shrank back in petulant way, l
Thought. "Last week I.got my feet a
little damp while playing the hose on
some of my stocks, but hardly think
that was what caused the trouble. I
am apt to overeat, as l said: 1 am
especially fond Of fruit, too. When l
was boy | had no trouble, because l
always divided my fruit with another
boy, Of whom l was very fond. l
would always divide my fruit into two
equal parts, keeping one OF these and
eating the other myself. Many and
many a time when this boy and |
went out together and only had one
wormy apple between us, l have
-di vided it and given him the worm.
GAS boy, was taught to believe
that half is always better than the
whole"
"And are you not afraid that this
neuralgia after it has picniced around
among your features may fly to your
vitals?"
Possibly so," said Mr.. Gould,
swapping the hunting case of his mas
sive silver watch with a loud report,
"but / am guarding against this by
keeping my pocketbook wrapped up
all the time in an old red flannel
shirt"
Here Mr.. Gould arose and went out
.of the room for long time, and l
could hear him pacing up and down
outside, stopping now and then to
peer through the keyhole to see if l
had gone away. But in each instance
he was gratifed to find that had not.
Lest anyone should imagine that l
took advantage Of his absence to
peruse his private correspondence,
will say here that did not do SO, as
his desk was securely locked.
Mr.. Gould's habits are simple, and
he does not hold his cane by the
middle when he walks. He wears
plain clothes and his shirts and col
lars are both made of the same shade.
He says he feels sorry for any one
vino has to wear pink shirt with a
blue collar. Some day he hopes to
endow a home for young men who
cannot afford to buy shirt and collar
at the same store.
He owes much of his neuralgia to a
lack of exercise. Mr.. Gould never
takes any exercise at all. His reason
for this is that he sees no prospect for
exercise to advance in value. He
says he is willing to take anything else
but exercise.
Up to within a very few years Jay
Gould has always slept well at night,
owing to regular hours for rising and
retiring and his careful abstinence
from tobacco and alcohol. Lately neu-
ralgia has kept him awake good deal
at night, but prior to that he used to
sleep as sweetly and peacefully as a
weasel.
The story circulated some years ago
to the effect that professional burg
lar broke into Mr.. Gould's room in
the middle of the night and before he
could call the police was robbed OF
his tools, is not true. People who
have no higher aim in life than the
peddling about of such improbable
yarns would do well to ascertain the
truth of these reports before giving
them circulation.
The story that Mr.. Gould once
killed steer and presented his hoofs
to the poor with the remark that il
would help to keep sole and body to
gether, also turned out to have nc
found ton whatever in fact, but i
was set afoat by an English wag wht
was passionately fond of bit o
pleasantly, don't you know.
Thus it is that man who has &C
quired competence by means o
honest toll becomes the target for th,
barbed shaft of contumely.
Mr.. Gould is said to be good con
versationalist, though he prefers t.
close his eyes and listen to Others